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(No Model.)

P. SO HR'ADER.

GLOTHESLINE SUPPORTING-FRAME. No. 892,463. Patented NOV. 6, 1888.

. WITNESSES: VENTOI? ATTOR/VEVJ,

N. PETERS. Phuhrlhhugnphnn Wilmington. D. C.

UNITED STATEs PATENT ()rrrce.

PAUL SGHRADER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

- CLOTH ES-Ll-N E-SU PPORTING FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,463, dated November 6, 1888.

Application filed February 18, 1858. Serial No. 264,522. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PAUL SOHRADER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line-Supporting Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved fireproof clothes-line-support-ing frame of that class which is applied to the roofs of tenement and other houses, the supporting-frame being of cheap and simple construction and so constructed that no part thereof is attached to the roof itself, thus preventing the producing of leaks, but that the entire clothes-line-supporting frame is supported by the partition-walls that are extended above the roof.

The invention consists of aclothes-line sup porting frame for roofs, which is made of gaspipe or iron rods and joints, and is secured to the side walls below the coping by means of cast-metal boxes set in the side walls and end pieces,which are attached to the lower girder of the frame and secured into said boxes. The upright posts of the framesupport the clotheslines, which move over suitable pulleys. The posts are stiffened by means of brace-rods attached to the side walls. The walk, formed of iron slats, extends along one or both lines of posts for conveniently reaching the clothes- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical transverse section through the roof and sidewalls of the houses, taken on line :20 m, Fig. 2, showing a side elevation of my improved clothes-line-supporting frame. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on line yy, Fig. 1, through the roof and clothes-line-supporting frame; and Fig. 3 isapcrspective view of the cast-metal box by which the supportingframe is attached to theside walls of thebuilding. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of one ofthe end pieces adapted to be received within the cast-metal box.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

AAin the drawingsrepresent the side walls of a tenement-house or other building, which walls are usually extended above the roof and provided with a suitable coping. Into the side walls are set cast-metal boxes B,which are open at one side, and which serve to receive the U- shaped end pieces,0,which are of equal height made of a number of gas-pipe or iron-rodsections that are connected by T-joints and crossshaped joints d d, as shown in Fig. 1. The lower girder, D, of the supporting-frameD is supported by one or more shortposts orstandards, D which are screwed to a T-joint of the girder and provided with an enlarged base, D that rests directly on the roof without being attached thereto. To the joints (1 of the upper girder, D, are applied upright posts E, which are also made of gas-pipe or iron rods, and support the pulleys G of a number of clothes-lines, F. The end posts of the supporting-frame D are connected by braces f with the eyebolts in the side walls, A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

A walk, H, made of longitudinal and transverse strips of metal, is supported on suitable feet and extends along one or both of the supporting frames and posts, as desired. The walk is not attached to the'roof, but fitted between the partition-walls, so as not to be liable to change the position.

The clothes are hung up by standing on the walk, the clothes-lines being moved over the pulleys as the clothes are hung up thereon.

The clothes-lines may be applied to special heads at the upper ends of the posts, or they may be otherwise attached thereto, as desired.

My improved clothes-line-supporting frame for roofs is entirely fire-proof, all the parts being made of metal,and does not inj ure the roof in the least, as no part thereof is attached thereto. It can be furnished at comparatively small expense, and forms a strong and durable supportingframe for clothes-lines.

Having thus described m'yinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of metallic supportinggirders extending transversely over the roof, U-shaped end pieces attached to the ends of said girders, hollow boxes set into the side walls of the building and receiving and supporting said end pieces, and clothes-line-supporting posts supported by the girders, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of metallic supporting- [5 walls of the building and receiving and supporting said end pieces, clothcs'linc-supporting posts supported by the girders, upper girders, D connecting said posts, and bracerodsf, connecting the outer of said posts opposite said upper girders with eyebolts set in the side walls of the building, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres ence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL SCHRADER.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, Osoan F. GUNZ. 

